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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

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Ketch Arrives in Sydney Trip From Tweed SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 5

With the object of visiting his father, whom he has not seen for 30 years, J. Jaggers, of Tumbulgum, accompanied by H. T. Piercy, of West…

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"Dawn" Arrives at Sydney Ketch Makes Trip From Tweed in Fortnight

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday:- With the object of visiting his father, whom he had not seen for 30. years, Mr. J .Jaggers, of Tumbulgum…

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Driven Ashore Villiers' Sailing Vessel New York

Northern Star · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 3

A 60-mile an hour north west gale to-day blew the sailing vessel, "Joseph Conrad" on to the rocks 800 feet from the Brooklyn shore. Two…

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Cut Down by Freighter Steamer Sinks in East River

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday:--Split almost in two by the freighter "Jan Christensen," the steamer "Lexington," of the Colonial Navigation…

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Wrecked Dutch Air Liner Bodies Recovered. Attempted Night Landing

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 7

The crash of the Dutch airliner is regarded us a national calamity, and lias plunged Holland into mourning. Feeling reference was made to it in the…

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Hurled on to Rocks Gale Wrecks Windjammer

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday:--A sixty-mile-an-hour gale wrenched the Conrad Bay Frontier anchorage and hurled the ship 800 feet on to jagged rocks…

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Burnt Letters at Darwin Salvaged From Wrecked Air Liner

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 4

DARWIN, Thursday:--When the air mail, which was brought to Darwin by the Imperial Airways 'plane Arethusa, was opened at the post-office, several…

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Canoe Swept to Sea Sydney Youth's Ordeal Surf Boats, Plane and Steamer To Rescue

Tweed Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday:--Three surf boats, an aeroplane and the pilot steamer Captain Cook, combined to carry out a rescue at sea late…

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Strike Over Seaman Steamer Laid Up Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 4

The crew of the inter-state steamer, Yarra refused to take the vessel to sea from Melbourne, owing to the dismissal of a seaman. As a…

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Mystery Explosion Baker's Shop Wrecked

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

ALBURY, Monday:--At 4 o'clock yesterday morning an explosion wrecked a baker's shop in Wilson Street, occupied by Leslie Butler, adjoining a…

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Holiday to the East E and a Steamer "Tanda"

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 4

The E. and A. Line Steamer "Janda" maintains with S.S. "Nankin' and "Nellors" a monthly service from Brisbane to Yokohama,…

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Interstate Steamer

Northern Star · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 2

Sailing each Saturday, commencing January 19, the t.s.s. Karoola will maintain a regular weekly sailing from Sydney to Brisbane. She is a…

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Trawler Foundered on Bank Only Two Rescued London

Northern Star · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 10

Men aboard the steamer "Goole" hearing cries for help in the darkness near Humber last night, launched a small boat and picked up a man…

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Receiver of Wreck

Northern Star · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 12

Describing the duties of that Board of Trade activity undertaken by Receivers of Wreck, Mr. A. G. Linney writes in the December number of…

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Steamer Held Up Fireman Became III

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday:--Owing to a dispute concerning a fireman, the steamer Canberra is held up in Brisbane…

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Local and General Steamer Held Up

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 2

The N.C.S.N. steamer, Tyalgum, which was scheduled to cross m at Tweed Heads yesterday, was anchored in Greenmount Bay last night, having…

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Steamer Aground

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 4

Turning from the wharf at Ballina early on Saturday morning the North Coast S.N. Co's steamer Bonalbo was caught by a strong southerly wind and…

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Lay Beside Dead Friend and Wrecked Cycle PERTH

Northern Star · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

With his companion dead beside him and himself badly injured, Patrick Roberts (21), of Clackline, lay in terrible agony for nearly four hours…

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Wreckage of Missing Yacht Perth

Northern Star · Thursday 17 January 1935 · page 7

The discovery of a large portion of the bows of a yacht, with a piece of new rope on the bowsprit, near the beach 20 miles…

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Sick Man Put Ashore

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 4

In response to a radio communication to the Navigation Department at Coff's Harbor from the liner Ormiston, of the A.U.S.N. Company,…

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